for ukraine, in order to pressure its government to carry out investigations for his political benefit, trump yesterday in a tweet quoting republican congressman john rat cliff wrote that quote neither ambassador taylor or any other witness has provided testimony that the ukrainians were aware that military aid was being withheld. you can t are a quid pro quo with no quo. matt mccarty made similar arguments on tuesday. the democrats were not able to establish that ukraine was aware that military aid was temporarily withhold, they will of course be able to not prove some extortion the president is claimed to be engaged in. there is a claim of quid pro quo of president trump with the president of ukraine on july 25th. we ve found what they said in here, on august 29th, ukraine found out that the money was being held up from politico. however, the new york times
weren t true. it s hard to know the degree unless you have witnesses like the roommate. stellar reporting, thank you so much for coming to give us a debrief on it. matt mccarty is currently chairman of the mccarty associates. she s also an msnbc political analyst and she s going to have to run shortly because she s got a radio show that comes on at noon every day. we won t keep you long. matt, kavanaugh has been hunkered down in the white house for a number of days, repeated a number of the talking points we ve heard from republicans during that interview last night. here s part of what he said. treated women with dignity and respect, dignity and respect, dignity and respect. i am looking for a fair process. fair process. fair process. fair process. fair process. let me be heard. fair process, hear from both sides. in defense of the editors on the fifth floor, we didn t, you
whole washington staff as well. it hurt his relationship of congress. that is different from president trump. he has an excellent relationship congress. has democrats coming to the white house republicans talk about a great relationship. there is no complaints there. eric: democrats have have supported the president, note democratic votes on the tax bill. healthcare. how can you paycheck? when the president comes to washington because they know apparently someone may have booted them out is it due to the president and a sense of the job you don t have someone close like matt mccarty who went to kindergarten with bill clinton. and forget steve bannon who left.
he even says it himself, what kinds of headlines. every president that has been president do you remember my lifetime has worried about the press and the coverage and what happens. all the name. the big job is to pay attention to the responsibility. the oath of office. before you were chief of staff what job did you have. deputy us what chief of star, seth of transportation, and governmental affairs in the white house. worked for three presidents. do you think reince priebus who never worked for a white house in his life he walks in and easy supposed to make the trains arrive on time. matt mccarty didn t have experience and he did it. people have done it. i think reince knows washington well. this staff didn t know each other well before. it is players that never played together on the same team. they were put together on a team. they are finding the sea legs. i think it s up to the president
you re an emotional guy. a lot of us are. you know this before i even mention it. it s been the main topic of conversation, and that is your emotions. do you understand why it s so much a topic of discussion, and do you worry at all about it being a distraction, especially during times of high moment? no. listen, it s who i am. there are some things i feel very strongly about. when it comes to kids, when it comes to my own family, soldiers, i feel very strongly that i want america to be the country that i grew up in. personal question. you re a smoker, not just a smoker, a pretty committed smoker. i ve got one in my own family. we all know him. do you think it s fair game as a topic giving smoking s prominence in the health care debate, or do you think it should be nobody s business and a matter of personal privilege form you. well, it is what it is. that s my take on it. it s a bad habit. i wish i didn t have it. have you tried to quit? i ve tried to quit from time